Today Union Ministry of Urban Development released the rankings of the ‘Swacch Survekshan 2017’ survey. So Minister Venkaiah Naidu announced the list of top 25 cleanest cities in India. Madhya Pradesh’s Indore topped the list.

While MP’s Bhopal ranked 2nd for the cleanliness and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh ranked at number 3.

This survey was conducted in 434 cities as part of Union Government’s Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan. In 2016, Maysore in Karnataka topped the list and this year it dropped to 5th rank.

Swacch Survekshan is aimed at capturing the improvement in sanitation and to make cities and towns open defection-free.

Key Notes:

In top 50 clean cities in India, total of 31 cities accounted for Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. There are 12 clean cities in Gujarat, 11 in MP and 8 in AP. While Maharashtra has only 3 cities in the list.

Cleanest cities in India 2017

Chandigarh, Chattisgarh, Delhi, HP, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Sikkim, and UP are having only one city each in 50 clean cities of India.

For top 50 dirtiest cities, Rajasthan and Punjab have 5 towns and Maharashtra accounts for 2.

Out of the 62 cities and towns surveyed in UP in 2017, 41 of them figure among the bottom 100 cities/towns.